Don't want to make this a long story, but a site not under my control redirected to mine; and now, when I enter my site name in Google it lists that site's URL under the descriptive text. I've also noticed my PR has gone from 5 to 3 today. This is the first time I've noticed this. I checked three days ago and it was as expected. Now here's some background... my site is really on bourgy.com/wordpress and I redirect to there from bourgy.com The other site is dbslayers.com and that is what now appears when you enter the search query 'bourgy' in Google. Any ideas?
Hello, I don't know the answer to your question, but you can try to contact google and ask them why this happens for your website and how to fix it. It's basically like that website is "ripping" everything from your website simply by redirecting it. This includes PR and rankings. However, Google states that it might take a while for google bot to see what's happening and passing all the weight the old domain had onto the new domain. This means removing the url of the redirected site (the site not under your control) and passing any links values that were pointing to the old website. I'd still strongly advise to contact google and ask them if this is a problem and how to fix it.
With a redirected domain, it may just take some time for the search engines to start accessing the new info. You might want to get a bunch of new links to try to speed up the process.
vansterdam, I only redirect from the main root cause I was a lil 'green' when I installed wordpress and used the wordpress sub-folder. So there really isn't an issue with accessing the info. The site got a PR5 in 4 months. Mike, I think I just may cause the site that redirected to mine did not do so maliciously. They closed down and since both sites covered the same niche they thought they were doing me a favor by redirecting their traffic. But, that doman had a PR of 2 so there is not much juice to pass on. However, as you said, I shoudl write to them cause I dont get why that site's URL supercedes mine when searching for my sitename. Do you have a link or email address to contact Google on this matter? Thanks for both o' y'all replies.
Actually we can't control them from doing this. But you try to email the webmaster of the site who is redirecting to your site or tell google about this.
What can the webmaster do, if you don't mind. A redirect is supposed to be a good thing, I thought. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll research your response but would you mind elaborating as well. Thanks.
That's the IP of the site redirecting to yours, it will block it and give the forbidden message. Google won't be able to follow the redirect and cache your content under his domain. Simple terms, it will fix your problem.
Update: Now it's gone but I am at #7 for Bourgy when I was an easy #1 before. And the URL is now my index.php address, it was just bourgy.com/wordpress before